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,UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED T. BUTTER, OF CAPE TOIVN, CAPE OF GOOD I'IOPE.

HARNESS.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,589, dated December 8, 1891.

Application filed July 22, 1891. Serial No. 400,305.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED THOMAS RUT- TER, saddler and harness-maker, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at No. 24 Darling Street, Cape Town, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, have invented a new and useful Improved Breast-Plate, Neck- Plate, and Saddle for Harness, (patented in Great Britain February 24, 1891, No. 3,370,) of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of the breast-plate, neck-plate, and saddle for harness, with their attachments, as I shall describe, referring to the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a perspective sideview of the front parts of the harness accordingto my invention. Fig. 2 shows a modification.

A is the breast-plate, which passes round the front of the chest of the horse and is usually connected to the breeching and traces,

but which according to my invention is connected'to the breeching by straps C, but is not connected to the traces B. These traces .in one continuous length, as shown in Fig. 1,

pass round the fronts of the breast-plate A, being free to slide along it to and fro, and thus the chest of the animal is saved from the chafing and rubbing to which it is subjected when the traces are rigidly attached to the breast-plate. Instead of making the traces in one piece with the part which passes round (No model.) Patented in England February 24, 1891, No. 3,370-

bands G, is made with several loops H, between any pair of which may be set the rings I, which guide the reins. The neck-plate K, over which passes the straps L, suspending the breast-plate A, is also made with several loops, between which the rein-guides I can be set. Then a bugle-pole is employed, it is held in rings M at the ends of the bugle-strap N, which passes over the neck-plate K through guide-staples P. In the lower part of each of these staples is a small roller, over which the bugle-strap N passes, so that it'moves to and fro with little friction.

, Havingthus described the nature of this invention and the best means I know for carrying the same into practical effect, I,claim 1. In harness, the combination of a saddle, a breast-plate, a neck-plate from which the breastplate is suspended, and apair of traces connected around the front of the breast-plate, but free to slide along it, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2.- In harness, thecombination of a saddle, a breast-plate, a neck-plate from which the breast-plate is suspended, a pair of traces connected around the frontof the breast-plate,but free to slide along it, and a bugle-strap passing through staples on the neck-plate over rollers therein, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 25th day of February, A. D. 1891.

A. T. BUTTER.

Witnesses:

WM. NIXON, H. R. ARDEME. 

